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Florence in the 13 hundreds: An overview. Arts, Architecture, Dante, and the Albizzi Family.
2021-11-13 13:02 In the episode we'll look at the arts and architecture of the 13 hundreds, and the events with the Rise of Banking Families, an economic crash, the Black Death, and the temporary move backwards ...
The Lord of the Rings, and themes in the Divine Comedy.
2021-11-05 11:36 In this episode we'll look at the deeper theological themes in the Lord of the Rings, and see how they are expressed by J.R.R. Tolkien, and in Dante's Divine Comedy. We'll also see how t...
The 12 hundreds in Florence, and the World Dante grew up in.
2021-09-30 12:03 In this episode we'll look at the historical events of the 12 hundreds, with the rise of the Merhcant class and the rivalries between families in Florence. This is a very important backdrop to u...
Dante's Letter to Emperor Henry VII, his "Shining Hope" for Florence.
2021-09-25 11:49 In this episode we'll look at Epistle VII that Dante wrote to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII of Luxembourg, after Henry's descent into Italy in 1310.  We'll go through the historical...
The Limits of Math & Science. Gödel, Cantor, Bolzmann and Turing.
2021-09-21 13:06 A reflection on the excellent documentary "Dangerous Knowledge", from BBC Channel 4 (2007). https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdoe8u   We'll look at the presentation of four great thinkers an...
The Letter to Cardinal Niccolò da Prato, Part IV. The hope of Dante and the Exiles.
2021-09-21 10:00 In this fourth and final episode about the First Letter by Dante to Cardinal Niccolò da Prato, we'll look very briefly at the events between 1302-1304 with the new Pope Benedict XI, and then the...